In answer to your question,
Legate, there's also this from
Letters:
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'Middle-earth', by the way, is not a name of a never-never land without relation to the world we live in....imaginatively this 'history' is supposed to take place in a period of the actual Old World of this planet.
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Letter 165
And this:
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The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.
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Letter 183